Reminder that this month's Virtual Tasting is Thursday 2/25 from 7-9pm Pacific Time. Read about it here.

They say Christmas comes but once a year. For Washington wine lovers though, this year it comes in both March and December.

This year’s Taste Washington is March 27th and 28th. Put on each year by the Washington Wine Commission, this is the state’s premier wine event. The weekend is broken up into two days. The first day features a series of educational seminars. This year’s seminars include:

The second day of Taste Washington is the Grand Tasting. Washington now boasts 650+ wineries. Over 200 of them are pouring at this event (see a list of participating wineries and wines being poured here). Approximately 75 local restaurants will be serving food as well.

I have been increasingly excited about this event but never more so than after a tweetup tonight at El Gaucho hosted by the Washington Wine Commission (search on the hashtag #TasteWA to see the discussion). The event featured wines from Long Shadows, DeLille, Woodward Canyon, àMaurice, Barrage, Betz, Januik, Pepper Bridge, Beresan, Cadence, Dusted Valley, Waters, and Col Solare. While the wines from these wineries were exhilarating, this represents only the smallest fraction of wineries pouring at Taste Washington. Every year I come away with a treasure trove of new wines and wineries.

Tickets for the seminars (which sell out quickly I might add) vary in price and are on sale here. Tickets for the Grand Tasting are $75 (4-7pm) and $125 (2-7pm) and are on sale through select retailers (avoid the fees) and Ticketmaster (pay the fees).

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Taste of Washington is like Christmas in March. And your birthday. Your best friend's birthday. Mother's and Father's Day rolled into one. Throw in your best wine weekend with the best food you can try.I guess I like it.

How did I know you would be the first one to have a post up about the tweet up? :-) I am really looking forward to Taste WA this year. Even more so now since getting a seek preview of the amazing wines that are going to be poured there. March is a busy month for wine events this year. Betz release and then the Quilceda release the same weekend as Taste WA. Hopefully I will run into you at one (or all) of these events.

Melinda, a pleasure finally meeting you last night. Indeed, March looks to be busy. Working on cloning myself for the Quilceda Release and Taste Washington. Animal experiments so far have not been promising.